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Daniel Saul Goldin served as the 9th and longest-tenured Administrator of NASA from April 1, 1992, to November 17, 2001. He was appointed by... President George H. W. Bush and also served under President William Jefferson Clinton and George W. Bush. Born in New York City, Goldin earned a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from the City College of New York in 1962. He began his career at NASA's Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio that year, and worked on electric propulsion systems for human interplanetary travel. Goldin left NASA a few years later to work at the TRW Space and Technology Group in Redondo Beach, California. During a 25-year career at TRW, Goldin eventually became Vice President and General Manager and led projects that conceptualized and produced advanced communication spacecraft, space technologies, and scientific instruments. When Goldin returned to NASA as administrator, he pioneered the "faster, better, cheaper" approach that proposed NASA could cut costs while still delivering a wide variety of aerospace programs.
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Kevin Compton joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1990. Since joining KPCB, Kevin's investments have focused on enterprise software and... the telecommunications industry. Kevin currently serves on the Board of Directors of two public companies, Citrix Systems and VeriSign .Kevin also serves on several private company boards, including KnowNow, Intersperse, Kodiak Networks, and XenSource.Other investments he has led for the partnership include Audible, Inc. , Cable Services Group , Global Village , Mobile Telecommunications Corporation , ONI Systems , Volterra , and Active Software, acquired by WebMethods .Prior to joining KPCB, he was Vice President and General Manager of the Network Systems Team at Businessland . While in this role, the company's sales increased from under $70 million to over $1.4 billion, and the company was recognized as the number one supplier in worldwide Local Area Networks for three straight years.
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